A fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.
Ten year-old Yachine and his thirteen-year-old brother Hamid live in the slums. Hamid works hard to support his family, but eventually gets in with the wrong crowd and goes to prison. After years in jail, Hamid returns home an Islamic fundamentalist. He persuades Yachine and his pals to join him. Their spiritual leader trains them and one day he tells them they have been chosen to become martyrs. On May 16th 2003, they commit the deadliest act of terrorism in Morocco's history.

"On December 18, 2010 Tunisians of all ages took the streets of Tunis to demand better living conditions and the end of President Ben Ali's repressive dictatorship, starting what would become the 2011 Tunisian Revolution and the Arab Spring. Among the demonstrators were seven Tunisian women activists, each one of these women celebrating the culmination of a life devoted to the fight for freedom and democracy in their country."--From container.

Three years before Tunisian dictator Ben Ali's government was toppled, an uprising in phosphate-rich Gafsa was brutally suppressed. Director Sam Tlili investigates the fates of the dissidents and life in the region today.

"[A] cinematic exploration of secularism in the Muslim country of Tunisia before and after the deposition of dictator Ben Ali. Made at the height of the 2010-2011 revolutions in North Africa, [this film] has proven it made the director the target of extremist death threats...Officially, Tunisia is not an Islamic nation. But over and over, [director] El Fani meets Tunisians who mistakenly believe that it is illegal to serve alcohol to Arabs, break the fast during Ramadan, or practice a religion other than Islam. In these encounters, she sees troubling signs that Tunisia may be becoming less tolerant of non-Islamic beliefs...[This film] documents Tunisians resisting religious ideology and fighting for a secular state in their everyday lives." -- Container.

The year is 1967 in La Goulette, a small harbor town in the suburbs of Tunis where various cultures have lived together for ages in effortless harmony. Youssef, Jojo, and Giuseppe are as inseparable as their three 16-year-old daughters, Meriem, Gigi, and Tina. In a fit of teenage provocation, the three girls swear that they will lose their virginity by the day of the procession of the Madonna. To make matters worse, each of them has her eyes on a boy of a different religion.

Two 16-year-old girls have an intense friendship while living in Nazi-occupied Tunis in 1942. Nour is a Muslim who eagerly anticipates her wedding to a handsome cousin. Myriam is a French Jew who is furiously resisting her betrothal to a much older doctor. However, his money is needed by her family to pay fines imposed by the Nazis.

Class, cultural and sexual differences are explored in this romantic gay drama set in sun-splashed Tunisia. Thirty-year old Malik returns to his homeland after the death of his father where he is greeted by his over-bearing mother who desperately wants to see him stay and get married. But instead, Malik meets and falls in love with the darkly handsome handyman. They begin a tentative relationship, but Islamic mores, a still class concious society, and the ever-presence of his mother threaten their burgeoning love.

"The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape. To keep Ishtar entertained, Bab'Aziz relays the ancient tale of a prince who relinquished his realm. As the tale of the prince unfolds, the two encounter other travelers with stories of their own"--Container.

The story of young man who takes a job as a schoolteacher in a village in the Tunisian desert, and is enveloped by mysterious and sublime events. A ship found apparently washed up, mysterious drifters shrouded in clouds of dust who haunt the dunes, labyrinths of underground corridors, vivid colors backdropped by bleak landscapes and ancient architectures, all combined with the unusual disappearances of the local young men, create strange circumstances.

A story set in the ancient deserts and settlements of Tunisia. While studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master, Hassan comes across a fragment of rare manuscript. He sets off in search of the missing pieces, believing that once he finds them, they will reveal all the secrets of love. Hassan meets Aziz, Princess of Samrakand, who aids him in his research. The two encounter wars, a battle between false prophets and face an ancient curse in their hunt for the missing manuscript.

Twenty-five year-old Bahta has no job, no degree and no prospects. His one passion is breakdancing, but even that outlet is repressed by the police who regularly harrass him. Bahta attracts the attention of a group of fundamentalists, who decide to recruite him into the violent and dangerous world of terrorism. The group wants to use him as a suicide bomber.
ا ينگ بركدنر، وث ن مني ر جب، اترتس ث اتنتن ف ا گرپ ف فندمنتلتس، وه ونت ت درگ هم انت ث دنگرس اند ڤلنت ورلد ف تررسم. بنس فترس انلد انتردتن وث درتر اند انترڤوس.

As Alia, the daughter of a beautiful servant, Khedija, grows up in the king's palace at the end of the French colonial rule in Tunisia, she realizes the sexual favors required of her mother and other servants, as she, herself, is misused by those in power around her. Women had to live in silence, a silence so profound, they may come to doubt their own past -- even their own existence -- yet they survived these political realities with courage, fellowship, and the resources of their bodies.

A young boy of twelve accompanies his mother to the womens' baths, one of the popular places in Halfaouine, the old city of Tunis. His budding adolescence stirs up anxieties about being caught between the world of men which attracts him and that of women which still protects him.
Camera Arabe surveys the realist movement in the history of Arab cinema. Inspired by the Nasser Revolution, a group of filmmakers set out to produce works to raise social awareness, reunite the family, and "undertake the creation of a new man." The movement was strong until the Six-Day war. It continued afterward in a less unified forum. The story is told using clips from several films and interviews with many Middle Eastern filmmakers including Nouri Bouzid, Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina, Abdelatif Ben Ammar, Michel Khleifi, and Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud.

A Tunisian widow embarks on a journey of self-discovery when she investigates a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, and is drawn into the world of cabaret belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure-seekers.

Like any groom, Hachemi is anxious about his approaching marriage, but not for the usual reasons. Anonymous alleyway graffiti challenging the manliness of his best friend, Farfat, overshadow the upcoming ceremony. Hachemi's concern is for himself as well as his friend, because he and Farfat share a childhood secret: as apprentices they were both molested by Ameur, the carpenter who trained them. While Farfat makes plans to run away to Tunis, a nervous Hachemi makes a more personal journey of self-discovery.

Aida and Amina, two young Tunisian women now in their thirties, are reunited. It is an occasion for them to question their lives and relationships. The presence of Fatiha, an Algerian refugee in Tunisia, creates a quest for the three women to overcome their respective societal limitations.